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How is it supposed to be harder to hack? I thought the main point is to have the blocking enabled in the whole network, including devices like smartphones.
by alpaca128 7y ago
How is it supposed to be harder to hack? I thought the main point is to have the blocking enabled in the whole network, including devices like smartphones.
- amelius 7y agoBecause the Pi-Hole doesn't run untrusted code, like a personal computer does (e.g. Javascript, installed applications, etc.). Same holds for smartphones.
- rovr138 7y agoLots of people run other stuff on the devices they run Pi-Hole on.
- jlgaddis 7y agoI'd consider the web-based administration interface to be "untrusted code" -- and there just a remote code execution vulnerability (due to very insufficient input validation of MAC addresses) discussed here yesterday [0] . [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22714661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22714661